Friday, July 02, 2004
Lies on The Record posted by Richard Seymour
Those of you seeking to establish what leading members of the Bush administration lied about in reference to the war on Iraq now owe a huge debt of gratitude to Representative Henry Waxman, who has compiled the most comprehensive list to date of misleading statements and outright falsehoods uttered by such Republican superstars as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and of course, President Bush. The report finds 237 examples of misleading or false statements from 125 public appearances, statements or speeches. President Bush made 55 misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq; Cheny made 51; Rumsfeld made 52; Powell made 50; and Condoleeza Rice made 29. The most direct falsehoods were found in Condoleeza Rice's statements, of which 8 were completely untrue. These false statements "included several categorical assertions that noone in the White House knew of the intelligence community's doubts about the President's assertion that Iraq sought to import uranium from Africa".So, there you go.